Show WHAT THEY ARE DOINO DOING IN IDAHO the adventurous knaves who have bare been controlling cont roling idaho politics are carrying their scandalous antl anti mormon campaign farther than even the average idaho editor can stomach one ot of them who with a bottle of whisky in ja one hand and his soap wrapper weekly containing one of the efforts of fred dubois in the other tramped the territory in the interest of tb test oath is now considerably sickened with fred and the gang that stand at his back hie his period of jim jama jams having passed bels he is beginning to realize the coltof coat of in bad company hadges lie does not think the jury at blackfoot who under the insolent dictation of certain united states officials indicted the mormons cormons who took the oath and registered in bingham m and on oneida elds counties did w what b 9 it they have occasion to be proud of indeed it looks to him now that the tremors have subsided as if it bore the distinct ear marks of persecution he can p perceive now better than he did the force and application of the instructions of the attorney general to the tract that mormons cormons bad a right to register he ile does not now see that in following out those instructions though the courts of 1 idaho did afterwards declare that bad laap law that the mor mona mons committed any very heinous crime labrie in brief fhe he is quite positive that under the circumstances the these as prosecutions prosecution a will hardly stand and au can result in nothing but expense to our citizens and the government ern ment and in conclusion he be makes bold to inform those over zealous officials who we are certain are at the bottom of these indictments that they need not think they have the sympathy of anti mormons cormons or any one else in this county there is very much more political caterwauling intimated than thin express ed in these apologetic growls from the idaho press if there is anything more conspicuous lj peculiar to idaho than ite dennis kearney politicians it is its pusillanimous editors the true situation up there no one could ever make out except from inference it he depended upon the newspapers for or information II 11 the signs mean anything it t la Is true that the territory is rapidly aming assuming a triangular warfare over the Mormon question naming the party of political jobs A first we have the anti mormons cormons who 4 11 have aye concluded to fight it out on their peculiar line if they sink the territory As covert opponents to these we have the politicians who would like the mormon vote now that they have had a substantial demonstration of its value but who are too cowardly to show their hand in the face of the benta ional prejudice upon which men of the fred dubois stamp have fabricated their claims to greatness bo go they work off their steam in a eort sort of inaudible whine at some person or r institution which they dare not call by their right name or declare in plain terms of what they are guilty the third party is made UP of the decent republicans who seem to have grown so disgusted with trickery and bluster as to all but withdraw from politics entirely this thin is what the papers intimate but do not may ay lest lost some blatant town hall graduate should bawl jack mormon |